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Title: Hong Kong Transwoman STILL Fighting To Marry Her Boyfriend
Post by: Butterfly on August 10, 2010, 05:05:48 PM
Hong Kong Transwoman STILL Fighting To Marry Her Boyfriend
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
10 August, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/hong-kong-transwoman-still-fighting-to.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/08/hong-kong-transwoman-still-fighting-to.html)


US based transpeople are focused on the court case brewing in Wharton, TX with Nikki Araguz, but we may wish to keep an eye on the other side of the planet as well.

In Hong Kong a transwoman is fighting for the right to marry her boyfriend.

Leona Lo mentioned this case back in November, and it involves a twentysomething post operative Chinese transwoman known only as 'W' according to the BBC report.
Title: Re: Hong Kong Transwoman STILL Fighting To Marry Her Boyfriend
Post by: Keroppi on August 10, 2010, 05:30:24 PM
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,81926.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,81926.0.html)

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Fears for core values in transgender unions

Dennis Chong
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=101597&sid=29212359&con_type=1&d_str=20100811&fc=2 (http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=101597&sid=29212359&con_type=1&d_str=20100811&fc=2)

A transsexual is neither a man nor a woman, said a lawyer representing the government in a High Court battle that will decide whether a transgender woman can marry her boyfriend.

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